Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine
About 208,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Eastern Grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has claimed.
Spokesperson Serhii Cherevatyi noted this was more than the approximately 170,000 Russian forces he says were involved in the initial invasion in 2022.
CNN has not been able to independently confirm these numbers.
Estimates of Russian losses have varied across different sources, with the Biden administration saying in May that Russia had suffered more than 100,000 casualties — meaning both those killed and wounded — since December.
The Kremlin rejected that figure at the time, with a spokesperson saying the US “has absolutely no way to give any correct numbers.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense has not released updates on its casualties since last September, when Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said fewer than 6,000 Russian soldiers had been killed.
In eastern Ukraine: Russia shelled Ukraine’s position in Bakhmut at least 476 times on Thursday, according to Cherevatyi.
“We are doing everything to exhaust their logistics — we are hitting the accumulation of equipment and personnel, headquarters,” Cherevatyi said.
He added that Ukrainian forces destroyed several tanks and other military equipment in Bilohorivka and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk region.
